Europe Trip Flight Cost Estimation

[Enigmatic]

Hello there,

I have been a holder of an Axis Bank credit card since January 2023, and currently, I have accumulated 70,000 points. I will also be receiving an additional 75,000 bonus points for the months of February, March, and April. This means that I will have a total of at least 150,000 points, which I can convert into air miles, amounting to 120,000 miles.

I am curious to know if these points are sufficient for me to book a round-trip flight from India to Italy using air miles. If anyone has booked flight tickets using air miles, could you please let me know the approximate cost?

Thank you.

 

[SteelSh0t]

Try turkish

 

[bvc19296]

Hello there,

I have been a holder of an Axis Bank credit card since January 2023, and currently, I have accumulated 70,000 points. I will also be receiving an additional 75,000 bonus points for the months of February, March, and April. This means that I will have a total of at least 150,000 points, which I can convert into air miles, amounting to 120,000 miles.

I am curious to know if these points are sufficient for me to book a round-trip flight from India to Italy using air miles. If anyone has booked flight tickets using air miles, could you please let me know the approximate cost?

Thank you.

Just look at the airline partners which are operating to Italy from India. Check how many miles it will be consuming for a round fare. Because different airlines offer different value to each air mile depending on route, date and season.

Sometimes Vistara domestically offers good value of 0.8-0.9, but in busy routes they offer only 0.6.

 

[Cardmarvel]

I am curious to know if these points are sufficient for me to book a round-trip flight from India to Italy using air miles. If anyone has booked flight tickets using air miles, could you please let me know the approximate cost?

I recently booked 4 economy tickets on Delhi-Paris Vistara flight for 30k CV points each.

 

[technom]

I recently booked 4 economy tickets on Delhi-Paris Vistara flight for 30k CV points each.

Please tell me it's one way

 

[Venky]

In the same boat as you. Planning (rather hoping) to visit either Amsterdam/Iceland in December or January and will be booking flights using miles accumulated with my Magnus. I can tell you that a flight ticket in Economy class will be 19k miles+taxes in Turkish (star Alliance) and 30.5k miles+taxes in United for Europe considering you are booking a flight that is anytime between one week from now to January next year.

The same flight ticket will cost you 30k miles in Business class when booked via Turkish and 60-62k miles via United.
But there is only 1 award seats in many cases so you’ll have to travel separately or pay for the other persons ticket.

 

[bvc19296]

In the same boat as you. Planning (rather hoping) to visit either Amsterdam/Iceland in December or January and will be booking flights using miles accumulated with my Magnus. I can tell you that a flight ticket in Economy class will be 19k miles+taxes in Turkish (star Alliance) and 30.5k miles+taxes in United for Europe considering you are booking a flight that is anytime between one week from now to January next year.

The same flight ticket will cost you 30k miles in Business class when booked via Turkish and 60-62k miles via United.
But there is only 1 award seats in many cases so you’ll have to travel separately or pay for the other persons ticket.

Only 1 award seat is very tough to manage. Then how can we plan trip with family??

 

[Cardmarvel]

Please tell me it's one way

Yeah, one way economy.

 

[Cardmarvel]

Only 1 award seat is very tough to manage. Then how can we plan trip with family??

I'd no problem booking 4 award tickets on Delhi Paris segment. This was in late March, so maybe that helped. Not sure how's the availability now.

 

[bvc19296]

I'd no problem booking 4 award tickets on Delhi Paris segment. This was in late March, so maybe that helped. Not sure how's the availability now.

which airline did you use? And someone confirm about Business class and Economy class of Singapore Airlines??

 

[Cardmarvel]

which airline did you use? And someone confirm about Business class and Economy class of Singapore Airlines??

Vistara

 

[Venky]

Only 1 award seat is very tough to manage. Then how can we plan trip with family??

In Business class through United. It showed only 1 seat available for multiple dates that I checked.

 

[Enigmatic]

@Venky
I have so many questions which are the following:
1. how are you checking prices in miles?
2. are you transferring points than checking it or something else?
3. What is the award seat? Are only a few seats available for miles members? Are ticket prices also higher for miles points?
4. How long it takes points to transfer? because I transfer 300 points to AirAsia. But points have not credit to my air aisa account yet.
I am so much confused

 

[Venky]

@Venky

Hey man, I’ll help you understand this a little better.

1) You can check the miles required for Turkish and United just by visiting their websites.
Turkish- Create an account, login, on right hand top you’ll see your name, click on it, then again on right side top you’ll see the menu icon, then miles transaction, scroll down a bit, and then you’ll see an option book now under the Star alliance award ticket tab. Then you can put in the details of your travel and it’ll show you the required miles.
United- Just visit them at united.com and tick the book with miles box, enter your details and it’ll show you the miles required that you need to book via United.

2) Some programs will need you to have miles in the account already before you could check the miles required. I just use two (above mentioned ones) and they don’t need you to transfer the miles before hand. But programs like Club Vistara do need you to have certain cv points before they show you the actual required miles for a ticket.

3) Award seats are the seats that are available to be booked using miles. There are very limited seats per flight to be booked using miles. Couldn’t understand what you meant about the ticket prices.

4) Every program has a different timeline. You’ll have to check before transferring. Max I think would be for hotel chains 7-10 days and avg 2-5 days for FFP’s. If its been longer than 2-5 days then you should definitely drop a mail to Axis and AirAsia.

 

[xxScriptzxx]

For #4, Transfer time:
FFP ( Frequent flyer programme)

Instant
1.Air Canada
2.Air France
3.Etihad
4.United
5.Qantas
6.Spicejet

T + 1/2 Days
1.Qatar Air
2.Singapore Airlines
3.Turkish
4.Vistara

HLP (hotel loyalty programme)

Instant
1.Marriott Bonvoy
2.Wyndham

T + 1/2 Days
Accor

Approx 1 Week
ITC

 

[Enigmatic]

@xxScriptzxx thanks for this. I am confused about points to price comparison. Like Vistara points 0.8 or 0.6 Value par 1 Mile. But I am not able to find out about other airlines or hostels. Thankfully I only transfer 300 points to Air Asia which is equal to 240 points. But 240 points are only 36 INR.

 

[fcmaTanveer]

I recently booked 4 economy tickets on Delhi-Paris Vistara flight for 30k CV points each.

how much was tax component in INR?

 

[Cardmarvel]

how much was tax component in INR?

about Rs 1500 per passenger

 

[Venky]

In the same boat as you. Planning (rather hoping) to visit either Amsterdam/Iceland in December or January and will be booking flights using miles accumulated with my Magnus.

Successfully got 30k miles transferred to the Miles & smiles ffp (one way). Took 2 days to settle. Will book the tickets in July 🥹

 

[bonheur]

Some noob questions here, as I've never done an award booking before. I have some points in Miles & More from a Swiss Air travel from before, who are a part of the Star Alliance. Does anyone know how can I transfer ERs to Swiss via Turkish? And what if I want to transfer all these points (including existing Swiss points) to Lufthansa? Or perhaps I can transfer to Turkish for now and club points from both Turkish and Swiss for a Lufthansa award flight at checkout?